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Offers the study of the legal structure crucial to Dante's Divine Comedy. This title makes the compelling case that Dante deliberately exploits this highly structured legal system to explore the phenomenon of exceptions to it, introducing Dante to crucial current debates about literature's relation to law, exceptionality, and sovereignty.

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"Written with grit and polemical brio, Justin Steinberg's book takes readers into the technical world of medieval legal conventions as they appear and even shape the vast and detailed legal system of Dante's Divine Comedy. Filling a substantial lacuna in the critical bibliography of the Commedia, the cogent and absolutely persuasive Dante and the Limits of the Law makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the poem." (Giuseppe Mazzotta, Yale University)"

Dante and the Limits of the Law

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 22/12/2013
      ISBN13: 9780226071091, 978-0226071091
      ISBN10: 022607109X
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      Literary studies: ancient, classical

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Offers the study of the legal structure crucial to Dante's Divine Comedy. This title makes the compelling case that Dante deliberately exploits this highly structured legal system to explore the phenomenon of exceptions to it, introducing Dante to crucial current debates about literature's relation to law, exceptionality, and sovereignty.

      Trade Review
      "Written with grit and polemical brio, Justin Steinberg's book takes readers into the technical world of medieval legal conventions as they appear and even shape the vast and detailed legal system of Dante's Divine Comedy. Filling a substantial lacuna in the critical bibliography of the Commedia, the cogent and absolutely persuasive Dante and the Limits of the Law makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the poem." (Giuseppe Mazzotta, Yale University)"

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